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Logan Mountstuart’s own heart finally, fatally, attacked him in yesterday’s
final instalment of William Boyd’s intimate account of an epic 20th-century
life. Our has-been author with the posh friends had fled New York in fear of
being charged with statutory rape and deserted London after one of his later
mistresses had died and Margaret Thatcher had become Prime Minister. And so,
in France, in a pretty cottage left to him by one of his literary hobnobs,
Mountstuart indulged one last romance, although this passion went
unconsummated. The beautiful Gabrielle was not the one for him, but she did
bear a